With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

Inside the silence is a melody.

We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long.

I'm running against a woman who's got David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel running her campaign.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.